RE: Abundant information, libre open access and information literacy

["Joseph Esposito" <espositoj@gmail.com>]

No, Sally is correct.  You can license data-mining rights.  It 
doesn't have to be open access.  I am not suggesting that this is 
a good business practice, but Sally is correct in principle.

Joe Esposito


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Subject: Re: Abundant information, libre open access and information
literacy

2009/3/27 Sally Morris (Morris Associates)
<sally@morris-assocs.demon.co.uk>:

> Heather, you have missed one point that I tried to make quite
> carefully. 'Free to Reuse' is NOT what is needed for text mining, etc
> - in fact such content doesn't even need to be free to access.

This is wrong, see e.g. http://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/blogs/murrayrust/

Klaus Graf